The State of Virginia is eliminating a history of Virginia textbook that claims there were thousands of black Confederate soldiers fighting for Virginia and across the South. The claim is disputed by most historians, though it's long been a talking point of the Sons of Confederate Veterans groups...a way to erase, or at least diminish, the slavery issue.
This Tuesday, by the way, is the 150th anniversary of Alabama voting in favor of seceding from the Union...and also the day the current Alabama Legislature will meet in organizational session.
Anyone know what the Alabama History textbooks say on the subject if black Confederate soldiers??
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